I listened to a really good podcast yesterday on Kanban. One of the topics discussed was the fact that with Kanban estimating story points is optional. Most of my agile experience is with Scrum, so my initial reaction was one of mild disbelief. How can a team perform work without estimating effort! But when you think about it, why do we have this vaguely obsessive focus on story points in Scrum? Surely in other areas there are teams that get by perfectly well without having to determine up-fr...
